Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Friend of Blog for Arizona Carolyn Classen at the Tucson Citizen reports Paul Cunningham appointed to Ward 2 Council seat – Carolyn's Community: Paul Cunningham, a Pima County juvenile probation officer since December 1999, was appointed by the Tucson City Council by a 6-0 vote tonight to the vacant Ward 2 Council … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The City of Tucson became the first city to approve a legal challenge to Arizona's controversial new immigration law that requires local police to verify the status of those they "reasonably suspect" are here illegally. City suit will seek to nullify SB 1070: The City Council voted 5-1 Tuesday to sue the … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report by Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD28): At last the Legislature has adjourned, with no special sessions on the horizon (for now, anyway). Adjournment Sine Die was declared at 11:07pm last Thursday, April 29. Every year, the House runs a Sine Die pool, where a few hundred … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Keith Olbermann delivered a "special comment" Tuesday night that goes to the heart of the conservative argument to tear up the Constitutuion and tear up the Bill of Rights, and in the case of Joe Lieberman, to strip American citizens of their citizenship, every time some yahoo is a wannabe terrorist: their … Read more
by David Safier Interesting questions are being raised among Mormons about SB 1070. Do they accept Russell Pearce's view that the anti-immigrant law adheres to the "12th Article of Faith, which says Mormons believe in 'obeying, honoring and sustaining the law'"? Or do they look at some of the more humane teachings of the church? … Read more